{"id":47148,"date":"2019-01-08T22:05:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47148"},"modified":"2022-08-02T11:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T08:42:52","slug":"responding-to-wrong-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/responding-to-wrong-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding To Wrong-Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[620,459,640,699],"acf":{"old_id":"47148","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"129","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miriam and Aaron act badly. In the face of Moses marrying a Cushite woman (possibly a Nubian from his days in Egypt, possibly a reference to Zipporah as a Midianite), Miriam and Aaron speak out against him. Their claim originates as a family spat about their sister-in-law, but quickly devolves into an assertion that they too should be seen as prophets on the same level as their eminent brother. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God hears their gripe, and responds immediately, summoning them all, making clear that there are none to equal Moses in the quality of his relationship to God and his capacity to hear the divine message \u201cplainly and not in riddles\u201d and to see God directly (8). Miriam is afflicted with a disfiguring skin disease (having appeared to criticize the skin of Moses\u2019 Cushite wife!) and God storms off, literally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You might think that ends the matter. They sinned; God spoke and acted. End of story. But our Torah\u2019s telling is only warming up. The real action picks up at this point. Acknowledging their sin, Aaron does immediate teshuvah and confesses to his brother, pleading for compassion. Moses responds instantly with not only forgiveness, but with action on his sister\u2019s behalf: \u201cMoses cried out to the Lord, saying, \u2018God, please heal her please!\u2019(13) God responds with the world\u2019s first <em>kal va-homer<\/em> (a type of legal argument called <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a fortiori<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) that she must at least remain in isolation for seven days. And during that time, we are told \u201cthe people did not march on until Miriam was readmitted (15).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the aftermath of clear sin, what is the Israelite expectation: <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">teshuvah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and consequences, forgiveness and compassion, solidarity restored. The one who commits error is expected to own their mistake and to bear the effects. Those afflicted find their way to forgiveness, even to the extent of advocating on behalf of those who wronged them. And God\u2019s grand response is to balance <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">din<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (justice, consequences) with <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rachamim<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (compassion, forgiveness). And the people? Well, their love for Miriam cannot be erased by a single misjudgment. They wait until she can rejoin them, and only then do they resume their journey. Together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As should we.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>image: Michal Ben Hamu<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":47149,"id":47149,"title":"num12-Miriam","filename":"num12-Miriam.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/num12-Miriam.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/responding-to-wrong-doing\/num12-miriam\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"num12-miriam","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":47148,"date":"2019-01-08 20:05:07","modified":"2022-07-19 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